Re: Welcome & introductions

(+1 for Phil as group leader.)

I'm David Weinberger <http://www.weinberger.org/David> and am also new to
the group. I plan on mainly lurking because this is a topic that interests
me, but I do not have the technical expertise to contribute in a meaningful
way. (Note: That doesn't always stop me.)

I write about the Internet's effect on ideas. I was a philosophy professor
long ago, and have been at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society
for 12 yrs, currently as a "senior researcher."

I have a long-term interest in interoperability. Until a year ago I was
co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab where I initiated and
oversaw the construction of LibraryCloud
<http://library.harvard.edu/librarycloud>, an open API for Harvard Library.
I also recently wrote a paper
<http://shorensteincenter.org/open-news-platforms-david-weinberger/> as a
Harvard Shorenstein journalism fellow on the rise, fall, and possible rise
of open APIs in the news media.

TL;DRL I'm a writer and occasional "do-er" who would like educational
material to be far more findable and reusable.

david@weinberger.org

David W.
david@weinberger.org

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Developer, SleepingDog <
developer@sleepingdog.org.uk> wrote:

> Introduction:
>
> My name is Tavis Reddick, and I am new to this group.
>
> I contributed in a minor role to the original XCRI project which produced
> the CAP 1.2 standard.
> https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/managing-course-information/xcri-and-xcri-cap
>
> I work for a College doing mostly web and database development; however I
> am participating here in an individual capacity (our College is still using
> the old XCRI Curriculum 1.0 standard for website course information
> publishing, and has other priorities at the moment).
>
> My special interest is in representing course data from a database through
> to its rendering as markup on HTML web pages (including navigational
> components, search engine optimization and making structural, semantic
> markup that is more accessible to devices and in turn users). The
> technologies I have used to do this include XML, HTML, SQL, XSLT and
> ASP.NET.
>
> I hope to produce working prototypes to illustrate any XCRI CAP to schema
> course extension mapping, and update my previous sample code accordingly:
> http://www.sleepingdog.org.uk/xcri/cap/sample/code/
>
>
> > On 16 Dec 2015, at 15:59, Phil Barker <phil.barker@hw.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > I know several of you who have joined this group, but not all of you;
> and I suspect that other people in the group don't know everyone. So, if
> you can spare a few minutes, it would be great if you could introduce
> yourselves.
>
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